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PonyFan Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Definite article+plural
“Maybe the ponies in Ponyville have interesting things to talk about.”
Does the ponies in Ponyville implies "all of ponies in Ponyville"? Thanks in advance!
The sentence is quoted from http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsky32_my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-season-1-episode-1-the-mare-in-the-moon-captioned_shortfilms#.UeVq3m1heVo at 07:02
The transcription is available in http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/Friendship_is_Magic,_part_1
Does the ponies in Ponyville implies "all of ponies in Ponyville"? Thanks in advance!
The sentence is quoted from http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsky32_my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-season-1-episode-1-the-mare-in-the-moon-captioned_shortfilms#.UeVq3m1heVo at 07:02
The transcription is available in http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/Friendship_is_Magic,_part_1
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Than you very much! Does "definite article+plural in (location name)" always imply all the member of the location?
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PonyFanDoes "definite article+plural in (location name)" always imply all the member of the location?Yes. More generally, with "definite article + plural"
"the reference is to all the persons, objects or whatever that satisfy the description (together with any implicit supplementation from the context)." Huddleston, Introduction to the Grammar
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